Barak Says Iran War Last Resort, in New Moderate Approach

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak once again took a more moderate tone over the possibility of a military strike against Iran, insisting any strike would come only after “all other options have been exhausted.”

Barak told Israeli soldiers in a speech at a military base that, “The political echelons see it as their responsibility to ensure that if wars can be postponed we will do so, we will make sure that if we go to war it is after all other options have been exhausted.”

This new tone is markedly different from what the Israeli rhetorical postures have been for the last few years. Israeli leaders last week appeared to give in to the US position, saying tough US postures may be eliminated the need to perform a unilateral strike.

Recent comments from the top US military official Gen. Martin Dempsey that America would not be “complicit” in an Israeli strike, as well as reports that Obama made the same comments in a secret letter to Iran, seemed to force the Israelis to tone down their war rhetoric.

Still, Israeli officials have tried to push the US to be a little harsher on Iran. Israeli officials responded to comments on Monday by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that the US would not try to impose deadlines for an Iranian deal, saying “Words like these won’t stop the centrifuges, but the opposite.”

Actually, the opposite appears to be true. Iran’s centrifuges are running, so to speak, because they are operating under a constant threat of military action from Israel and a United States that has Iran militarily surrounded.

Author: John Glaser

This f-rt bag should be tried for war crimes, not talking to complicit American and Western media. I and most of the real civilized world are not interested in what is coming out of this shi-ty little state until they join the human race again after purging, trying and sentencing their warmongering countrymen. But unfortunately I am not holding my breath as this should happen first in the good old USA.

So if the usa and everyone else pulled back and stopped threatining Iran they would stop making fuel ? Thats what the last paragraph of this story impliwa….get real there pusing for nukes wether we threaten them or not.